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Home » Music And Movies Articles » Digital Video Expo West Barbados Film Market Web Video Summit 2007 Jingle Mingle Actors Fund Of America Benefit 12th Annual Satellite Awards Nolle Opens In Theaters Nationwide Highl

Digital Video Expo West, Barbados Film Market, Web Video Summit 2007, Jingle Mingle, Actors' Fund of America Benefit, 12th Annual Satellite Awards, Noëlle Opens in Theaters Nationwide, Highl

In Beverly Hills on December 4, TelevisionWeek's Annual Syndication Roundtable features top executives from the syndication marketplace in an important panel discussion on the state of the business. Special guests are Dr. Phil McGraw and his son, Jay, executive producers of "The Doctors". Digital Video Expo West and DV Film Fest runs from December 4-6 in Los Angeles, and offers a line-up of educational forums, including Apple and Avid certification training, sessions covering digital video technology from A to Z, and specialized tracks featuring industry hot topics. Venture Summit West is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor, all happening in Half Moon Bay. The Summit gets underway with a Pre-Event Party in The Observatory on December 5. The Barbados Film Market - Film Finance Conference is organized by the Barbados International Film Festival (BIFF), with goals to set and maintain the lead as a major showcase for the exhibition of Latin America, Caribbean and Worldwide independent cinema.

The Department of Media Studies and Film of the New School in New York presents the 11th annual graduate student showcase this December 7. "Mixed Messages", an evening of student works selected by a panel of jurors, and emphasizing the Media Studies program's commitment to theory and practice encompassing all types of media. Reception follows. Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza is a Los Angeles event from December 7-9, featuring the creative work of Latina film directors from all across the country showing their creative work in front and behind the lens. Web Video Summit 2007 happening in New York, December 10-11, brings together the new pioneers of an expanding industry, discussing and demonstrating what you need to know about producing Internet video. David Poltrack of CBS Television and Garrick Utley of The Levin Institute preside over "FutureThink: The Media & Entertainment Industry 2008 and Beyond," taking place in New York on December 11. Women In Film and Television hold their Sixth Annual Jingle Mingle, with holiday networking and fun for Central Florida's media and entertainment professionals, December 12 in Maitland.

The Actors' Fund of America presents a December 13 gala benefit auction in New York, "Defining Elegance," showcasing glamorous evening gowns designed by award-winning costume designers using Brunschwig & Fis fabrics, all to benefit The Actors Fund. The International Press Academy puts on their annual event, the 12th Annual Satellite Awards, December 16 in Beverly Hills, and Academy Award winning actress Kathy Bates will be recognized for her 35-year career in entertainment with the Mary Pickford Award. Aspen Film Academy Award Screenings offers a sneak peek at some of the films everyone will be talking about come the Academy Awards® when it runs December 21 through January 2 in Aspen. At a New Year's Eve Holiday Bash in Port St. Lucie, aside from traditional holiday party festivities of champagne, hors'dourves, and party hats, there will be an announcement of filmmakers chosen to be a part of the Treasure Coast International Film Festival opening February 1-3 in 2008. Florida ART Film Fest is now accepting submissions for approaching film festival. Contact them for more info on submissions: floridaartfilmfest AT yahoo.com.

The above events are only a sampling of what is listed. Most of the reported events above have a submission process for indie and/or performing artists to take part in. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at most popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor's Checklist video blog is a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. This month on video you will see trailers and video clips of Lando Van Herzog: Music and Muscle... The Voice and The Violin, making his return appearance to our video report with the Cologne Cathedral Boys' Choir; World Wide Cinema and Vince Bosco present new French film and Cannes candidate "LYA" featuring music from new comers to the Electro scene, Starshiphustlers; Chris Mitchell's DVD bound comedy "Life's A Joke," the story of a man who's not getting any... jokes, or the other thing; the music video by Michael Sweet, and the film trailer for holiday release "Noëlle" about a business minded Catholic priest who arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to shut down a dying parish, opening December 7 at a movie theater near you. The Actor's Checklist now lets you check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple's iTunes, updated on an hourly basis, at: http://www.actorschecklist.com/resources/itunes.php.

And here is another random article you might be interested in...

Generate Ideas To Solve A Problem

After you have found a great niche market that is actively looking for a problem that needs to be solved, your next task is come up with a product that deals with that problem.

The best way is to brainstorm a list of possible solutions. Do not worry about the logistics of developing them at this stage of the game or second guess your ideas. You mainly want to get your creative juices moving as you write your thoughts down on paper. Allow everything in!

Consider services as well as products, check the products your competitors offer and ask yourself where you could improve on them. Perhaps they do not address some aspects of your market's problem. Maybe they are too expensive or to complicated for beginners to use or comprehend. Perhaps your competition is not specialized enough or maybe they are too specialized.

There is also the possibility that the solutions available are offered by individuals who are not experts in their field and don't really know what they are doing.

Keep asking yourself, "What can I offer that no one else is providing?

How can I make my solution different from anything else that is currently being offered?"

Take Raymond Lemire who created FlyingNoodle because of his love of fine food. He wanted to develop an online home business based on this love.

He decided to "one-up" his competition be selling only high-end gourmet pastas and sauces. So he sells exotic pastas such as "Roasted Red Pepper Fettucine" and his sauces range from "Portobello Shiraz" to "Artichoke Heart Pesto".

Instead of making these products himself, he buys them wholesale from other high-end Italian manufacturers and then offers them for sale through his site and his business revenues are $1 million a year!

Then there is Scott Marino who wanted to start a online home business with his sister and her husband. Their idea was to sell lingerie, but realized their was too much competition online. Then they came up with the idea of selling only novelty underwear! Now their site, WebUndies is the bigest supplier of novelty undergarments on the Web and it is generating revenue of $650,000 per year!

So, it's important to keep your mind open to all possibilites, since your winning product idea may come from the most unlikely source and it may be something very different from what you originally envisioned for your home business!